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Full Title: Historia de don Seruando, obispo de Orense, traducida el lengua gallega, y adicionada por don Pedro Seguino, obispo tambien de Orense que viuia era 1191. ano de Xro 1153 / Trasladada de su original en letra gotica por don Ioseph Pellicer de Touar coronista de Su Magestad.
After a summary history from the creation to the 8th cent. (p. 1-52) the works consists chiefly of accounts of well-known Spanish families, with fine drawings of the coat of arms of each one.
MS. written in Spain in a fine 17th century hand.
Long accepted as an authentic work of a Bishop Servando and Pedro Seguin (cf. N. Antonio, Bibliotheca hispana vetus, v. 1 (1788) p. 438) this work has now been shown to have been the invention of Pedro and Juan Fernandez Boan, with revisions and interpolations by Pellicer de Ossau y Tovar. Cf. A. Couceiro Freijomil, Diccionario bio-bibliografico de escritores (1951-53) v. 2, p. 39-40; v. 3, p. 356.
Former Shelfmark: MS 929.76 F36H
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